Sunday, November 2, 2014

Rihanna's Back

After about six months of being off Instagram, Rihanna has returned to using the social app. The instagram beef started when Instagram took down a few pictures that Rihanna had posted and considered to be inappropriate. Instagram has strict rules about posting violent, nude, partially nude, pornographic or sexually suggestive photos and celebrities have been proved to be no exceptions of these rules.

Rihanna has not been the only celebrity that has been upset with Instagram about deleted their pictures online. Scout Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis, also deleted her  account after Instagram deleted some inappropriate pictures according to their rules. After that Scout took it upon herself to start a campaign against Instagram, she walked around New York City topless in efforts to giving the issue publicity. The campaign was taken to Twitter and its called #freethenipple. 




Chelsea Handler is another celebrity who deleted her Instagram because of the same reason after posting a picture of her topless Instagram deleted her pictures as well because they considered them to violate Instagram rules.

In my opinion, I believe that Rihanna made a good choice by returning to Instagram. Social media sites are the way in which celebrities communicate to their fans. I follow Nicki Minaj on Instagram and if she was to delete her account or stop posting, I would wonder what she is doing for the first few months but eventually I would loose interest and start following other artists. The rules imposed by Instagram are fair to me because children who are following these artists are exposed to nudity and that's unacceptable. I understand that the whole women and male thing is important to a lot of people but anyone with common sense would see that it is not really a male versus female issue, it is just Instagrams way of making this app at least pg 13 so that everyone can enjoy it. 

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